It might just be that V isn’t drawing in the audience numbers in America that it needs in order to survive. Nevertheless, V has a touch of immortality to it in the UK due to key role is played in SyFy’s rebranding. The date that Sci Fi UK became SyFy UK was Tuesday April the […]
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Vincenzo Natali’s Splice
Splice is a sci-fi horror from Vincenzo Natali. He’s the chap behind Cube and so that might give you an idea of what sort of move he makes. Guillermo del Tero produced the movie as well. A strong pedigree. Boasting the tag line; “Science’s newest miracle is a mistake”, Spice features Adrien Brody (King Kong) […]
Project London trailer – indie sci-fi leaps forward
This movie will eat your planet. Project London bills itself as “nearly no budget”and you can detect a sense of pride from their press releases and fan communication. Take a look at the trailer and you’ll see why. The special effects look amazingly good. Described as a “crowd sourced” movie, Project London is using every […]
Sci-Fi channel found guilty of showing too many ads in the UK
Official British watchdog has found that NBC Universal’s Sci-Fi channel breached the rules by showing too many adverts for the second time in the month. Rule four of the British code on the scheduling of television advertising (COSTA) states that TV stations are only allowed to show 12 minutes of ads every hour. The Sci-Fi […]
SyFy coming to the UK
Last year the SciFi channel in the US became the SyFy channel. The fans weren’t that happy but the channel wanted to broaden the group of people it appealed too. Many fans grumbled; one my favourites is this Open Letter to SyFy from marketing guru Roger Wehbe at the Tribble Agency. In it Wehbe complains […]
Wow! $2699.99 for awesome Firefly Serenity model
Sideshow Collectables have an awesome but expensive model with their latest Firefly offering. The limited edition Serenity requires a $570 deposit and will ultimately set you back $2700. Wow. If you are that much of a fan then you can pay $470 a month rather than the large one-off payment. Yep; you can order it […]
William Gibson reads from Spook Country
Famous for his 1984 debut novel “Neuromancer” William Gibson is an established thought leader in the Sci-Fi community. This video harks back to 2007 and features him reading an excerpt from the book Spook Country.
New Doctor Who trailer: Waters of Mars
I’m in Norway today and was in Sweden yesteday. That’s why I nearly missed this new, 3 minutes long, trailer from the second last David T Doctor Who. This looks almost like something from the mind of Steven Moffatt but I suppose it’s just RTD proving to us he can do spooky too. Mind you; […]
The Fourth Kind official trailer
The Fourth Kind is a sci-fi / chiller feating Milla Jovovich as a psychologist video taping sessions with patients who all seem to have the same sort of alien encounter. The name “fourth kind” is part of the sequence from first encounter, to second encounter to third – which is contact and communication – to […]
District 9 score samples (via @scifi_online)
Sci Fi Wire have posted a Sony widget that lets you sample some of the District 9 score. I’m going to find the time to go see the movie after it launches in the UK (early September) but I suspect the score is worth grabbing of iTunes and using a gamer backdrop music.
